diff --git a/pidgin.changes b/pidgin.changes
index a0c0165..668f602 100644
--- a/pidgin.changes
+++ b/pidgin.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul 22 19:13:38 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Drop additional pkgconfig require (already implicitly detected),
+  but explicitly buildrequire it for /usr/lib/rpm/pkgconfigdeps.sh.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 21 12:02:53 UTC 2016 - sor.alexei@meowr.ru
 
diff --git a/pidgin.spec b/pidgin.spec
index d1ae902..9de6dda 100644
--- a/pidgin.spec
+++ b/pidgin.spec
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libxslt
 BuildRequires:  meanwhile-devel
 BuildRequires:  mozilla-nspr-devel
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
+BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  silc-toolkit-devel
 BuildRequires:  startup-notification-devel
@@ -197,7 +198,6 @@ Requires:       NetworkManager-glib
 Requires:       glib2-devel
 Requires:       libpurple = %{version}
 Requires:       libxml2-devel
-Requires:       pkgconfig
 
 %description -n libpurple-devel
 The libpurple-devel package contains the header files, developer
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@ Requires:       glib2-devel
 Requires:       glibc-devel
 Requires:       libpurple-devel = %{version}
 Requires:       ncurses-devel
-Requires:       pkgconfig
 
 %description -n finch-devel
 The finch-devel package contains the header files, developer